noise before IMS failure?

[topmech0]

hello guys

my friend has a 2003 boxster S with 30,000 miles on it. anyway she currently has it in a shop with the old IMS failure. she has been told that she would have had a noise for sometime before the bearing finally let go and it dumped its oil on her drive. only symptons she had was that the check light came on about 30 seconds prior to her pulling over. she then got out and saw oil starting to pour from middle of engine area.

my question is to the people on here is,if you had this failure on your car before then did you hear any noise before the oil leak or light coming on? be interested to know your experiences on this??

[RFM]

There is definitely no noise before the central bolt break.

[pjslowik]

There is definitely no noise before the central bolt break.

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